People in New Zealand have been offering to adopt Oscar the dog in their
droves, after the canine was caught on CCTV stealing pet food from a
supermarket.

6:05PM GMT 16 Jan 2013

Oscar, who is believed to have escaped while his owner was on holiday, walked into a supermarket in the city of Invercargill and grabbed a sausage of dog food from the fridge before fleeing the scene.

The supermarket's owner Esmay Hay joked that the crafty three-legged German short-haired pointer wasn't the average shoplifter: "They're usually of the two-legged kind."

She added that she suspected Oscar was a repeat offender: "We've noticed movement on the security cameras out the back, and there's been nobody here, so we're assuming now that Oscar may have paid us a visit before."

An Invercargill City Council official said that Oscar would remain at the pound until his owner reclaimed him, but if that does not happen, Ms Hay's daughter has been inundated with offers from people offering to give the dog a home.